1991
R
Miramax
1 h 38 m

1991
R
Miramax
1 h 38 m

Summary Krzysztof Kieślowski’s international breakthrough remains one of his most beloved films, a ravishing, mysterious rumination on identity, love, and human intuition. Irène Jacob is incandescent as both Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. Though unknown to each other, the two women share an e...

Directed By: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Written By: Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski

1991
R
Miramax
1 h 38 m

1991
R
Miramax
1 h 38 m

The Double Life of Veronique

Name: The Double Life of Veronique
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Released: 1991-11-22
Duration: 1 min 38 s
Rating: 86
Cast: Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Aleksander Bardini

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 40 User Ratings

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Directed By: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Written By: Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews

90% Positive
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100

Total Film

The Double Life of Véronique makes the familiar seem extraordinary and memorably conjures up the sense of metaphysical forces guiding its characters’ everyday lives.

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100

The A.V. Club

The film wilts under the harsh light of rationality; after all, how could anyone make sense of a heroine whose doppelgänger is both distinctly separate and inextricably connected to her? And yet these parallel lives rhyme so tunefully through the reflective cinematography and sweeping score that any confusion or disbelief tends to melt away.

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100

Washington Post

The Double Life of Veronique is a mesmerizing poetic work composed in an eerie minor key. Its effect on the viewer is subtle but very real. The film takes us completely into its world, and in doing so, it leaves us with the impression that our own world, once we return to it, is far richer and portentous than we had imagined.

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Chicago Sun-Times

There is a long central section in the film which is a triumph of narrative technique.

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Empire

Although not all the loose ends are tied up in the telling of this bizarre and absorbing tale of love, grief and goose-bumps, one scarcely minds at all, since the fourth-dimensional doings on offer, (underlined with a marvellously moody, haunting score by Zbigniew Preisner) are like an erotic trip into The Twilight Zone.

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Variety

Despite pic’s many-splendored outbursts of filmic creativity and intense emotion, final result, about the opposite destinies of a Polish girl and a French girl who look alike and have the same name and tics, remains a head-scratching cipher with blurred edges.

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The New York Times

The Double Life of Veronique doesn't end. About three-quarters of the way through, it starts to dissolve, like mist, so that by the time it is actually over the screen seems to have been blank for some time.

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7.9

90% Positive
36 Ratings

3% Mixed
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Production Company Sidéral Productions, Canal+, Zespol Filmowy "Tor", Norsk Film

Release Date Nov 22, 1991

Duration 1 h 38 m

Rating R

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Tagline Each of us is matched somewhere in the world, by our exact double - someone who shares our thoughts and dreams.

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Awards

Golden Globes, USA

• 1 Nomination

Cannes Film Festival

• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations

César Awards, France

• 2 Nominations

The Double Life of Veronique

Top Cast

Irène Jacob

Weronika, Véronique

Wladyslaw Kowalski

Le père de Weronika

Halina Gryglaszewska

La Tante

Kalina Jedrusik

La femme barjolée

Aleksander Bardini

Le chef d'orchestre

Jerzy Gudejko

Antek

Janusz Sterninski

L'avocat

Philippe Volter

Alexandre Fabbri

Sandrine Dumas

Catherine

Louis Ducreux

Le professeur

Claude Duneton

Le père de Véronique

Lorraine Evanoff

Claude

Guillaume de Tonquédec

Serge

Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus

Jean-Pierre

Alain Frérot

Le facteur

Youssef Hamid

Le cheminot

Thierry de Carbonnières

Le prof

Chantal Neuwirth

La réceptionniste

Nausicaa Rampony

Nicole

Boguslawa Schubert

La femme au chapeau

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